Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

If I could pick my wife by name, It'd be Whitney. That name just sounds right

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.